Club Tech [ Fo'c'sle]
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Topic: Club Tech [ Fo'c'sle]
Posted By: Gaafa
Subject: Club Tech [ Fo'c'sle]
Date Posted: 8/25/07 at 3:36am
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{Me thinks this may be a first for me. to actualy atempt to start a topic?]
This may help the Techies, Sparky. Lampy, Niosy, Mech's & even the Chipy & Aparelers.. To assist in grasping the fundimentals of the 'Simulatated Manifestation Of Known Emf ' [Electrical theory of S.M.O.K.E] by Joseph Lucas & the Bell Labs;- http://www.peizhang.com/forfun/forfun_writings_smoke.htm - http://www.peizhang.com/forfun/forfun_writings_smoke.htm
Which goes a long way to understanding the nature
of electricity, To add to the techies tool box & understanding. It also
covers Lighting a.k.a 'dark suckers' & adding to the 'outside of the box
thinking'!?!
------------- Joe Western Gondawandaland turn right @ Perth. Hear the light & see the sound. Toi Toi Toi Chookas {{"chook [chicken] it is"} May you always play to a full house} |
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Posted By: Gaafa
Date Posted: 8/26/07 at 11:36pm
I started [going to have to start using the 'royal we' rather than 'I'] ...anyway 'we' started a 'Stagecraft Guild' a few years ago. 'we' started it for all the member groups of our local WA State theatre association {aka 'Aunty ITA'[ Independant Theatre Association]} Which started off well with workshops in my own home theatre & even did weakend workshops in regional bush areas, traveling from Perth to as far as Albany in the south west. some 600 km's away. {I [woops 'we'] got cheesed off a bit, because all the costs, such as acomodation & fuel, came out of 'our' sky rocket, Even though the groups in these areas suggested & promised to refund 'us', but theatre being t'eatres it never happened!} "We' should have stuck to our own back yard & let the rest carry on playing about in thier own. Our dear sainted 'Aunty' liked & enjoyed the concept, but only played lip service to it, because I believe there only concern is the space between thier ears - but that's all another story! I had some strange idea we could have Guild members from all the theatre groups, who would complete trainging at the guild & inturn start thier own branch at thier group, perpetuating the concept from within. Even had cloth badges they could put on thier T shirts & had some made up designating articipher skills &/or acievements. [What a dreamer!] However after a few Strokes later flushed that idea down the Dunny! Along with a lot of others such as a central database & depositry of Props, set pieces, furniyure & tech gear. { even had the use of an old disused Electrical Power Station on a 20 year peppercorn lease from the government} Ah well 'it' happens! {There goes my 'Knighthood'' down the drain again or at least an '(Ocker) AM' would have been nice?] But all in all, it was like pee'n t'windward!  With getting hold of updated gear, I have tried a number of times to grab trade in equipment from the suppliers of new lgear, without any joy. It seems the firms would rather smash them up for land fill, than allow it back on the market? I have shot down most of thier excoses, such as safety conerns, but can't get pass this short sighted money grubing attitude or the fear they might actualy trade them back in again, wth any future update - What a load of Wally's! ------------- Joe Western Gondawandaland turn right @ Perth. Hear the light & see the sound. Toi Toi Toi Chookas {{"chook [chicken] it is"} May you always play to a full house} |
Posted By: MartyW
Date Posted: 8/27/07 at 2:16pm
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Letting the Smoke Out.... I use to work with an old fella from New Orleans... He introduced us to the concept of "Darn, Now it will never work, you done let the Smoke Out"... This was immediatly after one of the assistants was attempting to hook two wet cell batteries in series and actually wired, hot to hot and ground to ground!... Boy did that "let the smoke out"... Thanks for bringing back an old memory.. ------------- Marty W "Till next we trod the boards.." |
Posted By: Gaafa
Date Posted: 8/27/07 at 10:21pm
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That is one way to make a big bang statement,would have been interesting! May have been hot enough to boil water in a paper bag, for a cuppa, while waiting for it to happen. ------------- Joe Western Gondawandaland turn right @ Perth. Hear the light & see the sound. Toi Toi Toi Chookas {{"chook [chicken] it is"} May you always play to a full house} |
Posted By: Gaafa
Date Posted: 8/29/07 at 2:50am
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FROM TODAYS 'PLSN' - NEWS
English National Opera Calls to White Light for
LDDE Fluorescent Battens
(4 colour fluro tubes for Cyc & Footlights
[floats];-
MIGHT BE SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT? ------------- Joe Western Gondawandaland turn right @ Perth. Hear the light & see the sound. Toi Toi Toi Chookas {{"chook [chicken] it is"} May you always play to a full house} |
Posted By: Gaafa
Date Posted: 9/03/07 at 12:08pm
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I just registered at a GOBO site, which might be of use to the techies here. There is a newly developed 'GOBO desisng visualiser tool there, to assist when producing GOBO's [aka BOGO"s];- http://design.cablepick.com/gobo - http://design.cablepick.com/gobo
------------- Joe Western Gondawandaland turn right @ Perth. Hear the light & see the sound. Toi Toi Toi Chookas {{"chook [chicken] it is"} May you always play to a full house} |
Posted By: Gaafa
Date Posted: 9/15/07 at 7:57pm
I was in the shower this morning & the phone rang - Oh  !Completely wet [a normal condition] I answered it. It was an old marra from the theatre, who I worked with for many a year. Although he has been a lighting techie for gawd knows how long? He asked me a basic question about Ohms Law. After he rang off, as I was almost dry, I thought I'd have a bath anyway & try to think about this. How has he messed about with electrical stuff for ages without actualy understanding the basics of it? After having thought long enough for the water became cool & to add more hot! I wondered how if this was indeed the case with a lot of CT & PT theatre techies. So as it look like rain, I thought I'd visit 'Club Tech' & sort of find out today! (Well that's my excuse for being in the fo'c'stle today!) Here is an Ohms Law calculator & formula chart;- http://www.angelfire.com/pa/baconbacon/page2.html - http://www.angelfire.com/pa/baconbacon/page2.html That could be a handy tool to hang on to? In fact if your insterested, most electrical equipment suppliers have a carry in the pocket card, as a free give away, which might be better than lugging around a pc!  [This is of course is without prejudice to & not with standing, the excelent S.M.O.K.E proposition put by loseph Lucus & the bell Labs] {DISCLAIMER;- There is no consumption on my part, that Techies would not understand Ohms Law & practice in safe sets at all times! - But it may be of assistance to those wishing to venture into the dark side!} ------------- Joe Western Gondawandaland turn right @ Perth. Hear the light & see the sound. Toi Toi Toi Chookas {{"chook [chicken] it is"} May you always play to a full house} |
Posted By: Gaafa
Date Posted: 9/28/07 at 8:34pm
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I have been dobbed in to run a stagecraft workshop for my group. As they are all primarily actors/performers, I'm unsure what they would whant to get out of this workshop. Yes I have asked & only received the comments of 'theatre basics'? As they are not techies, I don't want to bore them stupid or waste thier time. So what would the members here think, actors may need to know on theatre & may even enjoy for a couple of hours. We are doing characterisation & script writing workshops, with my effort stuck in between, during November. ------------- Joe Western Gondawandaland turn right @ Perth. Hear the light & see the sound. Toi Toi Toi Chookas {{"chook [chicken] it is"} May you always play to a full house} |
Posted By: Gaafa
Date Posted: 9/28/07 at 9:46pm
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HAPPY BIRTHDAYS &
Productions/Events
September
2007
Sunday 2 Birthdays Ken Shaw (53) Monday 3 Birthdays anjanettehall (28), todat31313 (20) Tuesday 4 Birthdays weirdsister (43) Wednesday 5 Birthdays LINE_PLEEZE (42), sheilad58 (48) Thursday 6 Birthdays arrick (38), Diva 41 (44), Eclectic (27), mickey (46) Saturday 8 Birthdays janingrace (49) Sunday
9 Birthdays bennaynay (19), newburcj (62) Monday 10 Birthdays neilfortin (24) Tuesday 11 Birthdays Courtney (34), rjc0423 (54) Auditions : The Music Man Wednesday 12 Birthdays Holly (20), kiwiholly (20) Thursday 13 Birthdays black box (50), Mariamaria (50) Friday 14 Birthdays Jim_L (46), Rebekah (26), whitebat (27) Saturday 15 Birthdays Good Will (59), suzecue1 (53) Sunday
16 Birthdays Joseph (58), JustMeAngel (37), laurielu (49) Monday 17 Birthdays CTBumpkin (48), curlyblue (29), jenianydots (43), pdavis69 (38) Tuesday 18 Wednesday 19 Birthdays Boredmember23 (44) Thursday 20 Birthdays DIRJEN06 (41), VonCouch (23) Friday 21 Birthdays jimfloyd (70), keionm (32), SallyBowlsfan (26) Saturday 22 Birthdays emmyv05 (15) Sunday
23 Birthdays brnidgrl (35), lizzyb (48) Monday 24 Birthdays Laff (18), Point Blank (22), yacher (35) Tuesday 25 Wednesday 26 Birthdays POB14 (46), Theatre13 (38) Thursday 27 Birthdays MzGalinda (21), resetar (56), tashamay (23) Neil Simon's RUMOR'S Auditions "Don't Dress For
Dinner"
Friday 28 Birthdays jpoesytil (19) Deathtrap in Milford, Delware Saturday 29 Birthdays Wilbur (7) Legend of Sleepy Hollow ------------- Joe Western Gondawandaland turn right @ Perth. Hear the light & see the sound. Toi Toi Toi Chookas {{"chook [chicken] it is"} May you always play to a full house} |
Posted By: Gaafa
Date Posted: 9/29/07 at 9:11pm
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Chrcking out the latest 'Stage Directions' [EMag];-
Part of the breaking news is an article [infoadd] on the jatest innovative & new piece of equipment now on the market, The 'Swiveler';- http://www.creativestagelighting.com/products/swiveler.html - http://www.creativestagelighting.com/products/swiveler.html Someones finaly updated the 'Turtle' . Although I have no idea what they are worth, but for comeatre I think I would rather use the old Turtles, which I would imagine costs less than the 'Swivelers' post & packaging? I was hoping that the swiveler was some new fangled bit of gear, but it is only 'what;s old is new again' again! I think a lump of 3 ply on skids, with a hole drilled in the centre, to take the lamps yoke bolt, still works as well! Which makes me think that my 'Thwakers' may need to be rediscovered?  Swiveler;-
http://www.creativestagelighting.com/products/swiveler.html - http://www.creativestagelighting.com/products/swiveler.html However the new Dura-flex multi core cable looked interesting;-
http://www.dura-flex.com/ - http://www.dura-flex.com/
------------- Joe Western Gondawandaland turn right @ Perth. Hear the light & see the sound. Toi Toi Toi Chookas {{"chook [chicken] it is"} May you always play to a full house} |
Posted By: drose
Date Posted: 9/30/07 at 3:48am
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Joe, as an answer to your earlier question:
As an actor and occasional techie, my current interests lie in stage lighting design and set design. That's what I would like to learn about. But for the average actor in a stagecraft workshop, it would be great to touch base on the time and effort the designers put in on a show. Introduce some basic props creation techniques (aging paper to look like parchment, create a plaster mask, that sort of thing). As for set techniques, building skills are always handy - door and window framing, bracing a flat, levels and squares (non-builders don't realize the importance), and if there is interest, faux finish techniques. Not just sponging or glazing, but aging with blow torches and hammers...the fun stuff. I don't know if that's the kind of information you were looking for in your stagecraft question, but there you go. Hope it didn't totally waste your time
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Posted By: Gaafa
Date Posted: 9/30/07 at 6:50am
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That's great drose! Exactly the input I need. With only 2 hours, I should have mentioned it was more of a taster, with the hope of a door openers to further in depth workshops later. So your suggestions will help!  But it's great to find out what they might like to touch on.  I5 minutes is too long for them to sit on thier bronzes for any length of time. So I'll be getting them involved with rope work & even playing about with different lamps & clour gell, Might even get them to make a 'thwaker', a salt water lamp dimmer or even biol water in a paper bag. If they become totaly fidgety! I doubt there will be any more than a handfull, as it is not really thier tea bag - but you know? But thanks for your ideas, I was starting to think I was just whistling into the wind, with the Club Tech topic. ------------- Joe Western Gondawandaland turn right @ Perth. Hear the light & see the sound. Toi Toi Toi Chookas {{"chook [chicken] it is"} May you always play to a full house} |
Posted By: drose
Date Posted: 10/01/07 at 12:57pm
| ok, help me out on that last part...a salt water lamp dimmer? Boiling water in a paper bag? Clearly I'm even less of a techie than I thought! |
Posted By: Gaafa
Date Posted: 10/01/07 at 9:37pm
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Ah drose I think you are too young to have been exsposed to the old
P'ss pots [aka salt water dimmers] as they were lovingly known as. They were a glass container with a steal plate & an active electrode attached, which sat in the bottom of the glas jar. It was filled with water & had salt added as resistive medium. The theatre sparky would lower the negative cable into the salt brine & as the cables got closer to each other the lamp would get brighter. Inversly as the cables were drawn further away, the brightness is reduced. They work but were hard to control & with a bank of them it became almost like a steam bath, in the dungeon of the theatre. Also with evaporation, constant monitoring by adding water & ensuring the salt level, was an art. It was a corrosive situation & atmospere, especialy with the skin, eyes & metal ware. {Much like the Drummond [Limes] spot light & what it did to skin & lungs,]} They devised some weird devices to lower the cable to give a smoother control. But it was not for the faint hearted or for those that could not stand a cardial heart massage occasionaly. Not something you would want to mess around with these days. I cut my teeth on these & even used them in my own little theatre, I made when growing up. But they are a leathal bit of gear!  My Great Uncle Joseph had them in the Tyne theatre/opera house he built. When he introduced electric incandescent lights thru his friend Joseph Swan, on Tyneside in the north east of England. I only came across them at the Grand Theatre Byker, when I was was a wee kid. Because the Tyne Theatre became the Stoll Picture house, before I was spawned. They apparently used cylinders of carbon as ewell, although I never came across them. Bioling water in a paper bag is just that, and something I learnt as a Boy Scout. I preffer using a brown paper back, as it has a better taste. The trick is holding the bag over the fire as it's bioling, although gaffer tape handle works well. These days I demonstrate it using an old coffee or bean can, filled with sand & petrol added to about 1/3 of the can. Which is better than an open fire & the bag easier to handle, The water in the bag permiates & evaporates on the outside of the paper, so it never becomes combustable. It works well & it is only the idea of it that is ilogical. ------------- Joe Western Gondawandaland turn right @ Perth. Hear the light & see the sound. Toi Toi Toi Chookas {{"chook [chicken] it is"} May you always play to a full house} |
Posted By: drose
Date Posted: 10/02/07 at 1:51am
| Thats amazing! I want to try both, just because its so amazing. But I fear my tech director (who would automatically be drafted to help) would kill me. |
Posted By: Gaafa
Date Posted: 10/02/07 at 4:00am
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The water dimmer is not good for the complextion either. The paper bag billi tea is great, though it tastes a lot better, if you drop a gum leaf in the bag while bioling. Although it does become very interesting, if you try to swing the paper billi around your head 3 times. Like one does when using a billi can. ------------- Joe Western Gondawandaland turn right @ Perth. Hear the light & see the sound. Toi Toi Toi Chookas {{"chook [chicken] it is"} May you always play to a full house} |
Posted By: Gaafa
Date Posted: 10/02/07 at 11:45pm
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY all & CHOOKAS for the EVENTS.
October
2007
Monday 1 Chuckk6 (59), MikeO (40), PatrickArmagh (40) Tuesday 2 The Mikado (46) Wednesday 3 chel (35) Fools Theatre Actors Workshop Thursday 4 brianwolters (37) Friday 5 Broceli (19), Gypsie (17) Saturday 6 DinaCruickshank (15) ------------- Joe Western Gondawandaland turn right @ Perth. Hear the light & see the sound. Toi Toi Toi Chookas {{"chook [chicken] it is"} May you always play to a full house} |
Posted By: drose
Date Posted: 10/04/07 at 12:49am
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Thanks Joe! It's nice to know that someone checks those things out!
-d/fools theatre
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Posted By: Gaafa
Date Posted: 10/04/07 at 4:51am
I feel these events become rather lost, which is probbably a good thing with birthdays, as I always try to forget mine! I think it may be better if the birthday & event items in the callender, popped up in the topics as a post, rather than just a line on the forum page!  It's not that I'm an old softy & sentimental about birthdays. I just think we lose why they were entered on the profiles in the first place.  ------------- Joe Western Gondawandaland turn right @ Perth. Hear the light & see the sound. Toi Toi Toi Chookas {{"chook [chicken] it is"} May you always play to a full house} |
Posted By: Gaafa
Date Posted: 10/10/07 at 11:12am
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY all October 2007 Sunday 7 Birthdays DannyGoldenBoy (39) Monday 8 Birthdays b_mcgowan (17), Ed Young (41), jcbjon (23), Jerry Garber (65), Libractress (28), MzzusByourself (40), PTTS (17), TimmyJP (17) Tuesday 9 Birthdays curlydebra (17), STWBoxOffice (24) Wednesday 10 Birthdays andrewmoyo2000 (40), draigfire (51), ictoos (44), jillc99 (49), MrPlays (54), pryncessangel (26), Ward (41) Thursday 11 Birthdays Saty (19) Friday 12 Birthdays gebbysmith (59) Saturday 13 Sunday
14 Birthdays travsbluecar (37) ------------- Joe Western Gondawandaland turn right @ Perth. Hear the light & see the sound. Toi Toi Toi Chookas {{"chook [chicken] it is"} May you always play to a full house} |
Posted By: Gaafa
Date Posted: 10/14/07 at 9:25pm
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Monday 15 Birthdays Doodad (51) Tuesday 16 Birthdays Juror #3 (62) Wednesday 17 Birthdays angelsme (35), foursquare (38) Thursday 18 Birthdays Mike Polo (43), TotoTooTheatre(46) Friday 19 Birthdays bigtech (43), mommathes (43) Saturday 20 Birthdays ghostlight (39), JanetElaineSmit(65) Fools Theatre Murder Mystery ------------- Joe Western Gondawandaland turn right @ Perth. Hear the light & see the sound. Toi Toi Toi Chookas {{"chook [chicken] it is"} May you always play to a full house} |
Posted By: Gaafa
Date Posted: 10/19/07 at 5:12am
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This may help some techies who are near to tjis lighting workshop or is in a Group with enough bickies to send them? Stage Directions;-
http://www.stage-directions.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=468&Itemid=1 - http://www.stage-directions.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=468&Itemid=1 ------------- Joe Western Gondawandaland turn right @ Perth. Hear the light & see the sound. Toi Toi Toi Chookas {{"chook [chicken] it is"} May you always play to a full house} |
Posted By: Gaafa
Date Posted: 10/19/07 at 8:14pm
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Sunday 21 Birthdays seannn (37) Monday 22 Birthdays kzahorodny (27) Tuesday 23 Birthdays Purplerose1023 (54), turtle's mom (27), whalelvr32 (42) Wednesday 24 Birthdays buzz_adams (58), memoryfaded (17) Thursday 25 Friday 26 Birthdays annehenrich (43), B-M-D (52), ginamanning (44) MCT© presents COCKTAILS WITH MIMI Saturday 27 Birthdays JShieldsIowa (31) ------------- Joe Western Gondawandaland turn right @ Perth. Hear the light & see the sound. Toi Toi Toi Chookas {{"chook [chicken] it is"} May you always play to a full house} |
Posted By: drose
Date Posted: 10/21/07 at 6:47pm
| Hey Joe! Thanks for your committment to keeping us up to date, I really appreciate the time and effort. Just wanted to let you know that we are out here paying attention. FYI, our murder mystery (fools theatre, Oct. 20) went wonderfully and we are now writing two more for November and December bookings! |
Posted By: Gaafa
Date Posted: 10/21/07 at 10:22pm
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Wotabewdy, fair dinkum bonza drose! A small group in the bush here, do a similar thing, they have found it great to cion it in & turn the brass! It was such a good cion spinner, they have branched out, to knobble in on the trourist quids now. By linking up with the Hotham Valley Railroad, which is run by the railway historical society & operated by enthusiasts. They run tourtist train trips every weekend end to the south west of the State. So on each of the 5 or so long weekends each year, they include a M&M train excurstions, staying over night at a country town motel. Like you they write thier own & save on paying out royalties. Although I believe they have branched out into M&M river cruises, from thier base near Mandurah, a holiday spot an hour or so, south of Perth. With the M&M train trips, they have a deal with the motel & the local Bridgetown Reperatory Community theatre group. Who hire & fit out the M&M punters, with period costumes, on the saturday afternoon the train arrives for the stop over at the motel. The motel returns all the costumes cleaned & ironed to the comeatre group after the long wekend. So it is a win win situation all round. They were thinking of going in to corporate team building training productions. But our money grubbing federal government, pulled the pin on tax consetions for corporate training. Because it cut down on the amout they could waste by spending on politicains & thier flunkies, with th[er 'Fact finding mission' junkets. But that might change as the our little Bush Wombat - Jonny Howard & his cronnies - might get the big A, at the next pending election. Though I doubt it, as they are all tared with the same brush & only concerned with how much they can fill thier own deep pockets.  .------------- Joe Western Gondawandaland turn right @ Perth. Hear the light & see the sound. Toi Toi Toi Chookas {{"chook [chicken] it is"} May you always play to a full house} |
Posted By: Gaafa
Date Posted: 10/22/07 at 6:23am
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I got this from the AACT front page which was part of an article
about community arts groups economic impact that your local production
could generate. This Arts mob over there worked out on the varing info you feed into it. It'spossibly a load of twaddle but it might be usefull in order to baffle whoever you need to get the info across or just as a promotional tool;- Prosperity Caculator'-
http://www.americansforthearts.org/information_resources/economic_impact/calculator.html - http://www.americansforthearts.org/information_resources/economic_impact/calculator.html ------------- Joe Western Gondawandaland turn right @ Perth. Hear the light & see the sound. Toi Toi Toi Chookas {{"chook [chicken] it is"} May you always play to a full house} |
Posted By: JoeMc
Date Posted: 10/26/07 at 12:03pm
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News from "stage Directions;- London Mayor Announces Campaign to Green
Theatres;-
http://www.stage-directions.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=474&Itemid=1 - http://www.stage-directions.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=474&Itemid=1
I wonder if the Mayors Task force will be holding
thier meetings in the theatre 'Green [common] room', from now on?
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Posted By: Petermilli
Date Posted: 10/29/07 at 7:09pm
| Hi I work at The Tyne Theatre we still have some pot dimers. not in use now! thay cant have been the first lighting as there is the remains of a gas system. |
Posted By: JoeMc
Date Posted: 10/29/07 at 8:50pm
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Gday Peter & welcome - it's great to have another Geordie on the forum. No I assume it would have been the gas system, except the Tyne theatre & Opera house, was the first venue in the North of England to be fitted out with an electric lights system. When I was growing up there, it was a picture house the 'Stoll'. So I never actualy worked there, as it was not converted back to a theatre, for some time after I came to Oz in 1960! I would have thought the gas system would have been been taken out years before, when it became a picture house? I can't remember if the Grand, that was on Byker Bank, had any remains of gas lighting, which still had the p*ss pots. I never seen any gas pipes at the theatre Royal either, but I was only 13 when I lwas last there. I contacted the Tyne Theatre some years ago, when I was checking out my ancestors & the family tree bit. Unfortunetly they had no information on my Great Uncle Joseph Cowen, who built the theatre, even though his monument is just around the corner in front of Cowen House. From what I was told by my family he got his old friend Joseph Swan, who developed the longer life incandescent globe on Tyneside, to have the theatre fitted out electricaly. Also I would not be surprised if he didn't roll up his sleaves & lay his own Cowen Fire Bricks in the building himself orginally some where, as a gesture? He was quite a character at the time so it would not surprise me, although he was an MP & owner/ editor of the Newcastle Chronicle mewspaper, he alegedly used the shipments of his bricks to hide his gun running capers to Garibaldi & others. I also believe in the miners riots against the police at Winlaton, the cannon the miners used, was furnished by him. Which was feasable as he put up the 10 thousand Pounds to start the Tyneside & scottish Regiment around that same period. I would have loved to have known him, but I was born 40 odd years after he died, ------------- [western] Gondawandaland "Hear the light & see the sound! TOI TOI CHOOKAS {may you always play to a full house!} |
Posted By: JoeMc
Date Posted: 10/31/07 at 9:26pm
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Sorry Gaafa has fallen down on the job
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Happy Birthday to all
& Chookas for the Events;-
October 2007
Sunday 28 Monday 29 Birthdays evelyn50 (57), Ken W (57), KenW (57), mexicantheater (20), wynham (57) Tuesday 30 Birthdays bkpick (49), JCBaggee (23), victhepope (29) Wednesday 31 Birthdays Debflo (28), jtonner (57), OldGuy (64) Fools Theatre presents Grave Readings November 2007 Thursday 1 Birthdays ACT 1 Theater (52), BettyRizzo (22), JamesG (24), Margaret (70) Friday 2 Saturday 3 Birthdays grundy_man2000 (56), Lexemom (28) Sunday 4 Birthdays Desperado (21), weact (38) Monday 5 Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Ames Iowa Tuesday 6 Wednesday 7 Birthdays tomothy (38) Thursday 8 Birthdays Indyactor (54), mtgirl118 (15) Friday 9 THEY'RE PLAYING OUR SONG at Sketch Club Players of Saturday 10 Birthdays medora8773 (56) Sunday
11 Birthdays wkinsel (46) Monday 12 Birthdays KudzuJoe (48) Tuesday 13 Birthdays accidentalplay (25), the8rlighter (20) Wednesday 14 Birthdays claboy (55), DWStine (54), JaneyM (23), Kurt_Muller (62), WhirlieDrama (19) Thursday 15 Birthdays natasha082 (27), totoks (65) Friday 16 Birthdays b_marshall (26) Saturday 17 Birthdays Playwright
(55)
19Monday Birthdays ahupke (48) 20Tuesday 21Wednesday 22Thursday Birthdays dramaqueen (27) 23Friday Saturday
24 Birthdays arjaywall (50), lsoderman (43) Sunday
25 Birthdays ahmed55 (25), benhamtroll (36), Colin (60), danwest (44) Monday 26 Birthdays akphones (27), JANE39 (40), raji45 (40) Tuesday 27 Birthdays bbpchick (26) Wednesday 28 Birthdays Charley (53) Thursday 29 Birthdays andrewager (36), betzybetz (61) Friday 30 ------------- [western] Gondawandaland "Hear the light & see the sound! TOI TOI CHOOKAS {may you always play to a full house!} |
Posted By: drose
Date Posted: 11/01/07 at 1:12am
| Well, you certainly picked up the slack! (Hope Gaafa is alright?) Thank you for bringing the name and dates onto this page. I don't think everyone makes it to the events page. but just for the record, Fools Theatre's GRAVE READINGS (Oct. 31) was very well recieved. |
Posted By: JoeMc
Date Posted: 11/01/07 at 1:30am
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That's great drose, had any feed back from the punters as yet? As for gaafa he is fine I felt he was hogging  the forum too much [1K of the posts] So I
thought he needs to be filed away for a while - untill he realises that it is
far better to share around!
------------- [western] Gondawandaland "Hear the light & see the sound! TOI TOI CHOOKAS {may you always play to a full house!} |
Posted By: drose
Date Posted: 11/01/07 at 6:58pm
| You make me laugh. I have an alter-ego on this forum...but I have forgotten her login password, so alas! I have had to abandon her. As for Grave Readings...well recieved, good reviews from trusted sources; so I'm hoping the word of mouth sells the tickets for the last two showings. One of the pieces was my own, and it held its own in some very prestigious company (Poe and Noyes). So I am very pleased. |
Posted By: JoeMc
Date Posted: 11/02/07 at 2:43am
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with me it's more of an altered ego or could even be an Ultra one. it came about with the great crash of the Greenroom a while ago now. After Chris & Mike managed to get the site working again. Which must of been a mamoth task, after being hit by a 'Hacker' getting thier jollys off. I attempted to post as Gaafa again, but ended up registering as plain joe Mc instead. It was undoubtably my fault, I probably put the MacHines into a 'Temporal Flux' or sent into a 'Hystereses Loop' at least. {I always thought for years that the first was a women thingy & state of mind, then the latter a contiseptive device?] But when my son set me up with his handmedown computer & updated me - Gaffa raised his ugly head again, it was amasing just like magic!  Not only but also, I had a clue in finding your lost AE mate by checking if she was registered on your birthday? NBG your the only one celebrating in that month  - not long to go before you reach the big one now - {although some yoyo's reckons it it's the new 20? Weird I don't feel like 40, I wonder wot gum tree they are sitting in? }Anyhow it's great your play did well! The Poobah of our mob has writen a show 'Corpse cabaret' they are planning to do as the next production in '08, I talked her into directing it herself. But in the mean time she gone & got her self a job in America. I'm not sure where but it;s over there some place. I think it must be connected to theatre, as she has a degree in theatre from the local Uni.  She stepped into the breach recently when our President moved to the other side of the river. To date she has done a great job getting them all back on the tracks, pity she plans to evaporate. Now they are all running around like chooks with thier heads chopped off, madly chasing a director from somewhere else! I though I had engineered them to do thier own thing & be self contained from within. Strange what panic will do, as the first audition is on this Saturday, so why hit the big red button, they have heaps of time?  Anyhow 'Toi Toi Toi choookas' for the rest of the season drose.  ------------- [western] Gondawandaland "Hear the light & see the sound! TOI TOI CHOOKAS {may you always play to a full house!} |
Posted By: drose
Date Posted: 11/02/07 at 12:09pm
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The title: Corpse Cabaret is very intriguing. I'm a little bit glad she isn't directing it herself - for her sake. Maybe it's my inexperience, but twice now I've directed full shows that I wrote and they were both very unpleasant experiences. I find it very difficult to step back and let the actors do their job. I have a very distinct image in my head for all "my" characters - how they should move, act, talk, gesture...and it was nearly impossible for me to let the actors play and develope their own. I think I managed to let go enough for the actors to feel good, but it was so hard for me! I spent a lot of time feeling like the show sucked, because it wasn't EXACTLY what I pictured when I wrote it. But in hindsight, the cast did a good job and I'm pleased that my work was able to stand up under "other" interpretations. But Ohmygod! I really don't like directing my own work! (Except that I can cut it at will, and tease the actors with phrasing like, "I spoke to the playwrite and she agrees with me..." I like doing that.)
On a completely different note. I am working hard at developing my lighting design skills. Anyone have any recommendations on lighting texts that aren't written for post-doctoral engineers? Like a Stage Lighting for Dummies? I have a mentor, but he isn't always available to answer my sometimes (annoyingly) basic questions about gels and focus. I guess I'm a little more interested in the artistic aspects as opposed to the technical (ie. mathmatical...ick!) part, although I realize that I need both ends of the spectrum.
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Posted By: JoeMc
Date Posted: 11/02/07 at 9:52pm
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The net is a great resource for lighting these days & a couple of the better sites are;- Lighting for students by J E
Saltzberg;-
http://www.stagelightingprimer.com/ - http://www.stagelightingprimer.com/ Stage Lighting Design 101by Bill
Williams;-
http://www.mts.net/%7Ewilliam5/sld/sld-toc.htm - http://www.mts.net/%7Ewilliam5/sld/sld-toc.htm You can't go to far wrong, as they are focused around the American stage & fixtures, you would normaly come into contact with. Which may assist you better because they use your supply low voltage & of course resulting higher current values. For safety reasons this a major factor in your situation. Not from the design piont of view but a hands on techie enviroment. Women have been making thier mark on Broadway, from as early as the 20's as designers & still are today in a lot of theatres. Although they tend to be thin on the ground in Comeatre. I believe mainly because most groups are hard pressed finding techies, they tend to hunt for blokes primarily & have a hang up when giving a female a go. Which offer a greater available catchment area in almost every community theatre group. But things might slowly change, I hope with forums such as this. Some of the better designers I have worked with have been from the fairer gender, but they shy away from the actual techie bit. I suppose when more females enter the various trades generaly, the attitude of groups will follow as well. But I hate to hang by thumbs untill we reach that Port. I remember when I was lecturing in the electrical trades & the first female fronted up at the college, with Electrical Fitters Indentures in hand. I expected the other blokes to treat her like men did historicly, when females dared to become doctors or type writers eons ago. But blokes being blokes, the other lectures hung around her like bees to a honey pot. Which didn't help the young lass only get her fellow male apprentices backs up & would of became quite ugly, if not for the attitude of the lass & the experiance she aquired working at a male dominated Mining Company in the far north west of the state. With the two sites above you will probably find that Jeff is more perdantic technicly, while Bill is easy to grasp by a student, but that is only my opinion. At times I have enjoyed getting up Jeffs nose by refering to lighting designers as techies. Unfortunetly he tends to bust a poopah valve over the term being applied, usualy with the a rebuke of "We in the USA theatre do not refer to ourselves as common techies & being just tradesmen" ['come in spinner']. He would take the bait every time. But give him his due, he is well versed in his trade & aparently strives long & hard to impart his skills to the lesser mortals - So g'donya Jeff your dinkydie in the wool true blue! But don't let me put my slant on which is probably up the preverable creek anyway, glean what assists you trundling down the this cobbled toepath. When I was a wee bloke {although I'm still height impared - so nothing changes}I always remember being advised, when checking out a lighting colour state. To bend over with your back to the stage & view it quickly with head between your legs. To achieve a true colour optical view of it. It only works for a few seconds & then switch back to the normal & get vthe true colours for another short period. These days for me I'd only end up A over turkey on the deck. If nothing else it might put your weight up with others watching your antics, after they stop laughing. Then build kudos when you explain what your up to & why you are doing it? At the least if you don't baffle with science, you always resort to bulldust? I will have to find out were young Mel is going to in the States, she will be the third member of our mob recently to go there. I wonder what the atraction is? It can't be just money! Two of them were founder members that have settled in Albuqueque New Mexico two years ago, but one of them was a yank anyway & returned home with his aussie wife. I have not read Mels script as yet, but it is a musical on the rocky Horror Show style I believe. I will find out at the auditions this weekend & let you know drose. ------------- [western] Gondawandaland "Hear the light & see the sound! TOI TOI CHOOKAS {may you always play to a full house!} |
Posted By: drose
Date Posted: 11/03/07 at 4:05pm
| Thank you. I'll check them out asap. I actually have a two week break after the 16th before I start another project, so I'll be able to spend some time on it then. I do have to ask though: are you serious about viewing he lights from between your legs? And if you are, what exactly is going on to make that position, however brief, a more accurate perception? And does that mean then that the audience, after a few seconds loses their accurate perception when watching the production? (Assuming, of course, that they ever had it in the first place...) |
Posted By: JoeMc
Date Posted: 11/03/07 at 9:55pm
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Putting the complex into the simplex, the eye has 3 colour light
receptors Blue, Green & Red called cones, these are conected by 3
rods to the brain, that does the process of mixing the differing colour
hues, to give you the actual perceived colour of the reflected light
your viewing. This is also the same virtual principle of how a PAL colour TV camera & transmition monitor works. By putting your head between your legs you reset the brains processor & for a short period of time, percieve the true colours of the bounced light on a setting. Then the old brain slacks off & settles down again into it's mundane mode. Not suggesting if you turn your TV monitor at home upside down, you will improve the colour reception. There again you might by dislodging the collected dust or completly bugga it up? However not being an optical medical bod or eye specialist, that's my take on how the system works. But being visualy impared on my left side, you could say I'm rather one eyed on the subject. ------------- [western] Gondawandaland "Hear the light & see the sound! TOI TOI CHOOKAS {may you always play to a full house!} |
Posted By: JoeMc
Date Posted: 11/04/07 at 7:21am
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Sorry drose on 'Corpse cabret' I was up the creek, as usual, without a Paddle. Reading it thru today at the auditions, it is more of a Panto, with out the "He's behind you!" line in it. Also with our Pres Mel going to the America, she has accepted a place at a Performing Arts Uni somewhere there. However another founding member my old Welsh mate Hywell is off to the Edinborough Festival & the London West end to do a number of seasons. It all started when a Pro Theatre Company in Perth, contacted him to help them out to finish thier season. As the shows Production manager had spat the dummy & left them in the lurch mid season. So Hywell, who has only ever done amatuer theatre locally, with a few odd paid giggs. Stepped in to help them out & take over the role as the Production manager [SM, Lighting & Audio as well]. The season finished last night & the show is off to adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney & back to perth for a return season. however for the last 3 performances here, a representitive of the '08 Edinborough Festival in Scotland. Had been in the audiance for the last 3 shows & has invited & booked the production Company to perform the show there. Also to do seasons in the London West End & for other UK theatre seasons. So opportunety can knock at any time anywhere, even in a tin pot venue at the backside of the community theatre world, if your in it. Hywell pronounced Howell, is retired & is about 62, slightly older than me. So it is great news for him & he at least will get paid to do a fee trip 'back home again to Cym [Wales]' before he falls of the perch & pops his glogs. The show is 'The Two Old Queens';- G'donya Hywell & chookas Mate! ------------- [western] Gondawandaland "Hear the light & see the sound! TOI TOI CHOOKAS {may you always play to a full house!} |
Posted By: JoeMc
Date Posted: 11/04/07 at 8:37pm
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Here is a new toy from Rosco which is innovatetive, if you wish to give
moving inteligent lighting effect ago, by utalising your normal Profile
lighting lamp fixtures;- http://www.rosco.com/promotions/icue/index.html - http://www.rosco.com/promotions/icue/index.html Instead of going down the costly road updating by buying the whole shabang from scratch. [I want half a dozen] Also I picked up from Stage Directions Emagazine this;- about Theatre hardware;-
http://www.bmisupply.com/spechdw.html - http://www.bmisupply.com/spechdw.html With the new Rosco controlable mirror lamp attachment. I can just remember when Strand Lighting introduced thier new 5 position colour wheel, that was operated from the Bio Box. Which was a big step at the time fitted to the Strand Patt 23 Profile, not that I can remember the introduction of the Pt 23 at all. which proves the piont that if it hadn't been for Rock 'nRoll, happening when it did, we might still be playing about with just gobo's in lanterns. ------------- [western] Gondawandaland "Hear the light & see the sound! TOI TOI CHOOKAS {may you always play to a full house!} |
Posted By: JoeMc
Date Posted: 11/07/07 at 4:13am
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This my be of interest if your in or near Canada? 'Stageline' new covered wings system, for outdoor
shows;-
http://www.plsn.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2217&Itemid=1 - http://www.plsn.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2217&Itemid=1 ------------- [western] Gondawandaland "Hear the light & see the sound! TOI TOI CHOOKAS {may you always play to a full house!} |
Posted By: JoeMc
Date Posted: 11/09/07 at 10:04am
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Well I have sort of nutted out what I'm doing for
our 'Stagecraft' workshop?
If there is more than one who turns up, besides
myself!
At least 4 would be good, so I can do my character
shape thing to start off.
7;00pm By asking them to choose
from a Square, Circle, Triangle or Star.
Which would be the best shape they perceive
themselves to be & descibe thier choice at the end of the
workshop.
{[this has nought to do with stagecraft - but it
will give them something to think about?] it will be just my luck to have only 4
warm prop luvvies, who all think themselves only Stars!}
7;15pm Stage positions diving the
deck into it's basic 5 areas of Up, down, centre, left & right, then into 9
& 81 expanding to the apron, OP & PS of course.
If they are not yawning by then?
7;30pm Staging the box Show &
explains the things available generaly backstage in the Fly's, Masking,
Drapes & what's behind the pro arch. As well as the different types of
staging & a wee potted history of theatre & how it sort of evolved.
[If they all are noddies by then, I'll get them off
thier bums & give then a hank of rope each.
7;45pm Knots 1/2 dozen basic
knots they would likely to use back stage,
without getting into Lashing & whipping - unless I'm provoked!
8:00pm End of the penny section
& they can have a smokeo [10 minutes].
8:10pm Scenery parts of & how
to make a Flat ect. 8:25pm Lighting &
Colour the main types of fixtures they will come across, touch &
colour thru demos. Also a bit of Ohmhs law.
8;40pm With my magi antenna I will
choose at random a victim & guess what sign they choose, which will be always
wrong. Then after the choosen one shows thier sign to eveyone. I like magic ask
them to open an envelope, I pull out of my pocket. Of
course it will reveal the same sign that they have on thier hand, [boom
boom]
I now give desciptions &
explanations of the sign shape of the square - circle & triangle, which each have chosen & drawn
on the plam of thier hand. I will aviod & excluding the star.
That sign meaning I will leave till the very end of the
workshop.
9:oopm End workshop
{then I evoporate & meld into the night,
awaiting with smoke in hand, my driver/minder to arrive & pick me up - in true diva
style.
I always like to pre plan knowing I will end up
doing it off the cuff & going way beyond the time alotted
anyway!
But that's my mud plan, which should be boring
enough for anyone, one would think!
------------- [western] Gondawandaland "Hear the light & see the sound! TOI TOI CHOOKAS {may you always play to a full house!} |
Posted By: drose
Date Posted: 11/09/07 at 11:46pm
Sounds good! ...so, what do the shapes mean? I'd tell you how I percieve myself, but I'm not sure I want to open that can of worms until I know the score. This way I can remain discreetly silent if my choice is too far off the mark (or too close! )
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Posted By: JoeMc
Date Posted: 11/10/07 at 1:43am
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The piont of it is there is no right or wrong, not even a score. It
just makes them think of what type of personality they think they are,
by looking in the mirror at thier own reflected image. All I do is pick out the salient things they come up with, be they weird & wonderful. Then give them back a precis of the outcome for each symbol/sign. Which it nearly every case of a group, fits in with what they perceive anyway. there is nothing like fence sitting, as long as it is not a barb wire fence, which can make ones eyes water. With me while I started off as a square, over time I got the corners knocked off. To the piont I became more of a circle, After been knocked around a bit, I went spinning in ever deminishing circles, eventualy ending up as virtualy a dot. Similar to the extinct 'Hawk Hawk Bird'! I suppose beginning a dot/spot, I know I'll deflate into a flat line - such is life! the square I normaly associate with those back stage, the circle with directors/producers & FOH, triangle with actors, artistic, techies & solicitors. But that's only my thoughts? ------------- [western] Gondawandaland "Hear the light & see the sound! TOI TOI CHOOKAS {may you always play to a full house!} |
Posted By: JoeMc
Date Posted: 11/20/07 at 7:18pm
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Two Cirque du Soleil Zumanity Acrobats
injured, 29 year old women loosing her grip on the ribbon & falling
15-25 feet to the stage during the silk ribbon ariel stunt. At the New
York Hotel & Casino New york Tuesday.
Technicain Training week;'-
http://www.plsn.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2272&Itemid=1 - http://www.plsn.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2272&Itemid=1 ------------- [western] Gondawandaland "Hear the light & see the sound! TOI TOI CHOOKAS {may you always play to a full house!} |
Posted By: JoeMc
Date Posted: 11/21/07 at 7:25pm
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If we have any community theatre techies from around Glendale Arizona?
[Found this add in the 'Front of House' Emag] who are availble Dec - Feb this might interesr you & you can pick up a few bob or even $, working the Super Bowl '08;- Might be worth a wee squint? ------------- [western] Gondawandaland "Hear the light & see the sound! TOI TOI CHOOKAS {may you always play to a full house!} |
Posted By: JoeMc
Date Posted: 11/22/07 at 7:01pm
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Here is something 'NEW'? 'Light Break' could this mean it is a new way for lighting techies to have thier Smokeo's from now on? No such luck! This company has reinvented something, I can remember playing about with back in the 1950's & I'm sure it was an age old device then! http://www.lightbreak.com/ - http://www.lightbreak.com/ Blimey how inovative is that - not very! Sure it is a wee bit more up market than just pierced bits of tin or plywood creating paterns, straped on a fresnel [soft edge] spot - but they will obviously flog a few, so in that regard it's a new way to make a few Sov's. Why didn't I market that & turn a few bob? Except I doubt I'd have the gawl to even think of doing it! But good luck to them! [Ithink Prof Stan McCandless (USA) & Francis Read (UK) would have refered to it in thier books of the 1920's&40's}] ------------- [western] Gondawandaland "Hear the light & see the sound! TOI TOI CHOOKAS {may you always play to a full house!} |
Posted By: JoeMc
Date Posted: 11/27/07 at 4:02am
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Here is the latest Lighting Tool design model toy available, I picked up in this months PLSN EMag;- http://www.seelightbox.com/ - http://www.seelightbox.com/
Video of Lightbox in operation;- http://www.seelightbox.com/public_html//video.htm - http://www.seelightbox.com/public_html//video.htm ------------- [western] Gondawandaland "Hear the light & see the sound! TOI TOI CHOOKAS {may you always play to a full house!} |
Posted By: JoeMc
Date Posted: 12/04/07 at 7:34pm
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ANSI (standards) is having a couple reviews concerning the Entertainment Theatre Industry. Which may be of interest to techies to respond;- Glycol Fog, smoke & mist standards
meeting;- http://www.plsn.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2321&Itemid=1 - http://www.plsn.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2321&Itemid=1 Public reviiew of followspot
positions;-
http://www.esta.org/tsp/documents/public_review_docs.php - http://www.esta.org/tsp/documents/public_review_docs.php All in PLSN Emag;- http://www.plsn.com/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1 - http://www.plsn.com/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1 ------------- [western] Gondawandaland "Hear the light & see the sound! TOI TOI CHOOKAS {may you always play to a full house!} |
Posted By: JoeMc
Date Posted: 12/14/07 at 4:15am
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TO ALL HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
CHOOKAS FOR THE EVENT December 2007 Saturday 1 Birthdays brenda (50), DannyGilx (40) Sunday
2 Birthdays ericfwise (46), ijejune (46), KPHS Drama (57), KPITS (57) Monday 3 Birthdays emilya (61), JClairUSF (28), John G (55), LisaJ (36) Tuesday 4 Wednesday 5 Thursday 6 Birthdays JackScottHSM (17), John Gleason (51), MRichards999 (29), organ grinder (75), Tjelvar (28) Friday 7 Birthdays krisk71 (36), Tom_Rylex (35) Saturday 8 Birthdays Norma (31), SteveC44us (49) Sunday
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Posted By: JoeMc
Date Posted: 12/14/07 at 11:35pm
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Here is a christmas present that one might like to be added to thier theatre xmas list! {Got this from another site} http://www.dfd.com/pdf/shokdata.pdf - http://www.dfd.com/pdf/shokdata.pdf ------------- [western] Gondawandaland "Hear the light & see the sound! TOI TOI CHOOKAS {may you always play to a full house!} |
Posted By: JoeMc
Date Posted: 12/31/07 at 5:32pm
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HAPPY HOGMANAY! &
Ne'erday 2008! ------------- [western] Gondawandaland "Hear the light & see the sound! TOI TOI CHOOKAS {may you always play to a full house!} |
Posted By: JoeMc
Date Posted: 1/16/08 at 5:53am
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This may interest those members near 'DC'?
http://www.round-house.org/education/sarahplay.php - http://www.round-house.org/education/sarahplay.php
As i got from the SM Network disscussion board, I assume, not having read it completly, that it is for Techies primarily, to be mentored during a production. [I don't know if costs or not?]
{not sure what DC is, except as related to 'AC' or it might mean that place called washington?}
 However if your interested why not jump in for your chop! ------------- [western] Gondawandaland "Hear the light & see the sound! TOI TOI CHOOKAS {may you always play to a full house!} |
Posted By: JoeMc
Date Posted: 1/16/08 at 8:21pm
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If you find you may have nothing better to do, have ago at your personality type test here;-
http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp - http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp
Test explained;-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers-briggs - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers-briggs
I'm
{which is all probaly mumbo jumbo to me?]
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Posted By: JoeMc
Date Posted: 1/18/08 at 8:54pm
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For those interested;-
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Posted By: JoeMc
Date Posted: 5/28/08 at 3:51am
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This may interest those who are theatre Sparkies or would like to be.
By the look of the agenda it is a basic electrics course, in most cases this is covered normally. in the first years of an apprenticeship.
 But I think it is probably of more value as a networking opportunity - in this game. The New York Electricians Training Seminar 2008: July 15-17, 2008held at I.A.T.S.E Local 764 Presented by ETCP Recognized Trainer Richard Cadena The Night Life is Optional – the Fun and Learning is Not https://plsn.webex.com/ - Enroll in Richard Cadena 's seminar today.
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Posted By: JoeMc
Date Posted: 6/07/08 at 1:44am
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For those Techies in the US that may be interested - this is a free invite.
So jump in for your chop!
If nothing else it may give you some interesting insight with developments in the lighting game? http://w -
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Date Posted: 6/09/08 at 9:15pm
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